Erdmann Encke

Erdmann Encke (26 January 1843 – 7 July 1896) was a German sculptor.

Portrait of Erdmann Encke (c. 1880)

Biography

Encke was born in Berlin. He studied at the academy in Berlin and with Albert Wolff. Several of the finest pieces of statuary in Berlin were designed by him, among them the following: “Friedrich Ludwig Jahn,” bronze statue (Hasenheide, Berlin); “Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg” (Façade of Town Hall, Berlin); “Queen Louise of Prussia” (Thiergarten, Berlin); and the sarcophagi of Emperor William I and Empress Augusta in the mausoleum at Charlottenburg. He also executed a number of important bronze portrait busts, in which he used polychromy with success. He was appointed a professor of the Berlin Academy in 1883. He died, aged 53, at Neubabelsberg.

Queen Louise of Prussia, Großer Tiergarten (today occupied by a cement copy)

Notes
    gollark: Fascinating.
    gollark: If you just doubled the number of people "involved in politics" by some loose definition by taking arbitrary random people, would this actually improve the political situation? I would be surprised if it did; I don't think most have some sort of unique original contribution, but just go for participating in shouting louder at other groups.
    gollark: Possibly true but not very relevant.
    gollark: You could probably argue that something something tragedy of the commons, but clearly there are a lot of people who do do politics and it is possible that adding more would actually worsen things.
    gollark: Even if it is the case that if everyone ever ignored politics there would be problems, that doesn't mean that one person ignoring it is bad.

    References
    • Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Encke, Erdmann" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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